Mehdi Nemmouche

Mehdi Nemmouche (17 April 1985-) was a French Islamic State fighter who fought in the Syrian Civil War before killing 4 people in an attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium on 24 May 2014.

Biography
Mehdi Nemmouche was born in Roubaix, France in 1985 to a family of Algerian descent, and he was raised by his grandmother and in group homes. He was involved with armed robbery, vehicle theft, and vandalism before spending five years in prison and becoming a radical Islamist behind bars. In September 2012, three weeks after being released from prison, he travelled to Syria, and he returned home in 2013 after fighting alongside Islamist militant groups. in January 2014, he entered into contact with Islamic State cell leader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was in charge of IS cells in Western Europe. In 2014, he plotted an attack in Paris on Bastille Day, but he ultimately decided to attack a Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium. On 24 May 2014, he carried out a 90-second mass shooting at the museum, killing three and mortally wounding a fourth, and he fled the scene on foot. He was arrested on 30 May at the Saint-Charles railway station in Marseille, and he was extradited to Belgium on 29 July 2014.